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it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As I walk through the front door of my air-conditioned office building and say hello to the receptionist I can't help but feel this is just what it was like living under Marcos or Pinochet.

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plenty of people live comfortable lives under dictatorship, you can compare that office worker to a citizen in Qatar and they'd probably live similar lives materially.

You could also compare the sweat shop worker for the company that office workers company contracts their manufacturing out to, to the migrant pseudo-slave workers in Qatar.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

the migrant ~~pseudo-slave~~ slave workers in Qatar.

Think you had a typo there^